Black CNN Host, Guest Openly Mock Majority of White People

CNN host Don Lemon and political commentator Marc Lamont Hill openly mocked white people who believe there is discrimination against whites in the United States during a segment on Wednesday’s episode of CNN’s “Tonight with Don Lemon.”

The segment revolved around an NPR poll published on Monday in which 92 percent of black respondents said they believed there was discrimination against blacks and 55 percent of whites felt there was discrimination against Caucasians.

“A new poll shows that the majority of white Americans believe there’s discrimination against their race,” Lemon began. Before he could finish what he was going to say, Hill shook his head and smiled, which caused Lemon to begin laughing.

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“White people are amazing,” Hill responded.

Lemon then reported the findings of the study and directed Hill to “go on,” to which he did.

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“We can’t get nothing? We can’t even get discrimination to ourselves?” Hill said, as the two men continued to laugh.

“Look, the problem is, often times when you are in a position of privilege and power, when that privilege and power is taken away — even a little bit — what is actually equality feels like oppression to you, it feels like discrimination to you.”

But as James Barrett with The Daily Wire pointed out, Lemon did not address the actual language of the poll, nor the follow-up questions. While Hill and Lemon reported the poll showed that 55 percent of white people believe they personally are discriminated against, what the response showed was that 55 percent of whites felt there was discrimination against whites in general.

Those are two very different things, and two men with the brain power of Lemon and Hill know it.

A middle-aged white man enjoying a moderately successful professional career, for instance, might never have personally experienced discrimination, but could well be aware of white college students having trouble getting into the school or program of their choice because of affirmative action programs or some similar impediment. That man could be among the 55 percent who thought whites face discrimination because of their race, while never claiming to have suffered because of it himself.

That, of course, didn’t stop Hill from arguing that the notion that 55 percent of the white population felt discriminated against was “wildly irrational.”

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Political commentator Ben Ferguson, who was also part of the panel, weighed in and asked, “Is it wildly irrational that 94 percent of African Americans think they’re discriminated against when in reality it’s not even close to that in America?”

Of course, the men had only mockery for that question. To have answered it honestly would have logically required them to accept the 55 percent figure among whites.